M0017597: Kettle-drum, collected in Uganda

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Kettle-drum, collected in Uganda.

Photograph of a metal kettle drum covered in lacing. It was acquired in Uganda but thought to possibly have been made in India. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930 and given accession number A190498. It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

October 1959

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A190498

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.